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THE reply of Mr. W. H. Dines, in NATURE, April 14, p. 495, to Major Goldie's letter, brings out very convincingly the peculiar fact that the temperature conditions of the troposphere, both in cyclones and anticyclones, are such as would rather obliterate than maintain them. Indeed, when we consider the problem of pressure distribution, we find that the conditions are generally exactly the reverse of those required by the ordinary accepted theory, except in latitudes within the tropics of Capricorn and Cancer. We are thus faced with a very striking theoretical difficulty; for the winds of the earth do not appear, in the main, to derive their force and direction from the temperature conditions at or near the earth's surface.
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DEELEY, R. The Cause of Anticyclones. Nature 111, 634–635 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111634b0
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